benstylus
* 13-Nov(#6)Feeb wrote:> If there were awards for most impressive coding etc I’d agree with you. It doesn’t
> take a skill set to vote for esports coach of the year or best voice actor etc.
Is there really a group of people who thinks an award for best esports coach of the year is something that anyone cares about? Or are they just stretching so their awards show can go longer?
That's like having an award for "best movie theater manager" or "best Gamestop location" or something.
Even so, I would guess that the vast majority of gamers have no concept of what makes an esports coach exceptional. Other than a win/loss record or something, in which case you don't need to vote because it's a mathematical process at that point. And even if they do have ideas on what makes a good coach, how many gamers can name multiple esports coaches and what makes them different?
And as far as best voice actor goes, maybe it doesn't take a great skill set to know when someone nails a role, but I think reserving the privilege of voting to dedicated industry veterans is still acceptable.
I would love to see an award for "least buggy game at launch".
Kommie
13-Nov(#8)I voted for a video game.
Orlandu
13-Nov(#12)A lot of overlap in those categories.
Anxiouz
13-Nov(#13)It's basically the same few games in nearly every category. There's so little variety.
klusion
13-Nov(#14)The popular vote (public fan vote) is only 10%. 90% is voting jury.
Archer
13-Nov(#15)Anxiouz wrote:> It's basically the same few games in nearly every category. There's so little variety.
>
The whole thing is just a one big circle jerk.
PizzaTheHutt
13-Nov(#16)benstylus wrote: > I would love to see an award for "least buggy game at launch".
I was just thinking something similar earlier today. On Friday, Super Mario Bros. Wonder will be one month old and is still on version 1.0.0, meaning there hasn't been a single patch for it, day one or otherwise. How many other games from 2023 can say that?
Anxiouz
13-Nov(#17)Yeah, but to be fair there were some reports saying that they had no fixed period of time to make the game. So they had as much time as they wanted to polish it. How many other games can you say that about?
Orlandu
13-Nov(#18)It's bizarre that a shipped functioning product is the exception rather than the rule.
benstylus
13-Nov(#19)Anxiouz wrote:> Yeah, but to be fair there were some reports saying that they had no fixed period
> of time to make the game. So they had as much time as they wanted to polish it.
> How many other games can you say that about?
That tells me more companies need to be taking a page out of Nintendo's playbook then, and putting out a quality game instead of relying on patches and season passes to make it acceptable
benstylus
14-Nov(#21)Orlandu wrote:> benstylus wrote:
>> Orlandu wrote:
> |>> I wish they would add a best short game award. I feel like the smaller games
> tend
> |>> to be overlooked in favor of the lengthy epic stuff.
>>
>> There are always the annual gtz awards that we haven't done yet this year
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>
> I'll have to check that out. Feels like I haven't played much this year, so I probably
> missed some good stuff.
Someone usually makes a thread in mid December.
benstylus
15-Nov(#22)Even Forbes is whining about the Game Awards
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/11/14/...The author's complaint is that any GOTY nominee should be excluded from the other categories because that makes the other categories largely redundant.
Baldur's Gate 3 is a GOTY nominee and a best RPG nominee? Well clearly if any of the other RPG nominees had a chance they would also be GOTY contenders.
I think his solution to the problem goes the wrong way because (as he even admits in the rant) it turns the subcategories into things like "Second Best RPG behind Baldur's Gate"
Why not have every voter provide a ranked choice style list of all the nominees from every category? Then those games that win their respective categories move on and the overall winner is decided from the ranked choice votes for those games.
And the 2023 Game Awards Game of the Year goes to... esports coach Danny “zonic” Sorensen!!!Ok so the non-game categories don't need to have their nominees included in the GOTY rankings, smart guy.
(Moved to correct topic)
Foxhack
15-Nov(#24)klusion wrote:> The popular vote (public fan vote) is only 10%. 90% is voting jury.
You say voting jury, I say greased palms.
Yoshi
15-Nov(#25)Foxhack wrote:> klusion wrote:
>> The popular vote (public fan vote) is only 10%. 90% is voting jury.
>
> You say voting jury, I say greased palms.
I'd frankly respect "gaming journalism" more if that were the case.
klusion
15-Nov(#26)Foxhack wrote:> klusion wrote:
>> The popular vote (public fan vote) is only 10%. 90% is voting jury.
>
> You say voting jury, I say greased palms.
Ha. I suppose you never know...
Feeb
8-Dec(#28)benstylus wrote:> Huge congrats to Christine Chi on her incredible win.
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I’m buying a jersey.
Anxiouz
8-Dec(#32)Spider-man 2...zero awards. No sure it's a game-changer but zero awards sure doesn't seem right.
Kommie
8-Dec(#33)Cookie cutter Superhero open world game that's probably not much different from the first game. Can't imagine why it didn't win anything.
Archer
8-Dec(#38)benstylus wrote:> "Best thing Doom was ported to" would make for an unironically great category
>
>
You spelled Skyrim funny.
Foxhack
8-Dec(#39)Sad they didn't reveal the Skyrim port to the PlayDate.
Kommie
8-Dec(#43)Archer wrote:> I always default to calling him Doritos Pope. I forgot about the panty raider thing.
>
>
> Also happy cake day @Kommie
Thanks!
Feeb
8-Dec(#44)Kommie wrote:> Archer wrote:
>> I always default to calling him Doritos Pope. I forgot about the panty raider
> thing.
>>
>>
>> Also happy cake day @Kommie
>
> Thanks!
Happy bday❤️❤️❤️❤️
bumsplikity
9-Dec(#48)I had a good enough time watching the awards. There were a number of reveals that got me excited, and I was really glad to see that they went for it with the Alan Wake musical number. The show is of course a 3 hour commercial presented as an awards show but that doesn't keep me from having some fun while it's on.
Kommie
9-Dec(#50)Remember how MS announced a Perfect Dark remake and a new Fable and nothing's been heard since?
Kommie
17-Feb(#62)Archer wrote:> Diablo 4 won an award? WTF.
Best monetization of a $70 game? My guess.
Archer
17-Feb(#63)Kommie wrote:> Archer wrote:
>> Diablo 4 won an award? WTF.
>
> Best monetization of a $70 game? My guess.
That would make sense. Or even how to ruin a franchise in 3 months.
But online game of the year, what a joke. Unless by online game of the year they mean how to peak at 7 million players and then drop below 40K after 3 months and never recover no matter what you do. Does that mean online game of the year now?
Feeb
17-Feb(#64)Kommie wrote:> Archer wrote:
>> Diablo 4 won an award? WTF.
>
> Best monetization of a $70 game? My guess.
I saw they now offer a mount bundle that costs more than the game.